Automatic Actions for Posts

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The PublishPress Future plugin offers several choices for what to do with your posts when they are unpublished. You can find these in the sidebar area of WordPress posts, as in this image below:

Future Dropdown
Future Dropdown

Change to a default status #

Three of the available options will change the status of your post.

  • Draft: move your post to the “Draft” status.
  • Trash: move your post to the “Trash” tab.
  • Private: move your post to the “Private” status.

Delete the post entirely #

This next option is only to be used with extreme caution:

  • Delete: completely remove the post from your site.

Change the Sticky option #

Two of the options will change an option on your post:

  • Stick: Enable the “Stick to the top of the blog” option.
  • Unstick: Disable the “Stick to the top of the blog” option.

Change the Categories #

Three of the options will modify the categories on your post:

  • Category: Replace: remove all existing categories, and add new categories.
  • Category: Add: keep all existing categories, and add new categories.
  • Category: Remove: keep all existing categories, except for those specified in this change.

Change the Custom Status (Pro version) #

PublishPress Future Pro allows you to change the status of a post to any custom status registered in WordPress.